The School of Education is offering a series of professional
development workshops designed to address specific challenges facing curr
ent and future educators. Co-teaching kicks off the series.

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Co-teaching has typically been used as a classroom strategy by teachers
of exceptional students and teachers of typically developing students. Ho
wever\, co-teaching is now being explored as a collaborative partnership b
y cooperating teachers and the student teachers they support as a way to i
ncrease instructional effectiveness and advance student learning. This 3-h
our professional development session explains the benefits of co-teaching\
; describes how it is useful for both cooperating teachers and student tea
chers\; and provides practical plans for implementing co-teaching models i
n the classroom.